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...building also has no lobby. Instead, Kaufman provided a lively outdoor plaza with pools, a thicket of trees, and an old-style candy store-all for less cost than the usual marble and glass entry. The whole area forms a relaxing and pleasing contrast with what Kaufman calls "the street-level sterility of the financial district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Little Fun | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...situation expressed as works of art," said Judy Chicago, the program's cofounder. "In essence you walk into female reality and are forced to identify with women." Thus the linen closet showed a manikin housewife trapped amidst the laundry, and the "Womb Room" consisted of a thicket of fibers that drooped, in Chicago's words, "like an exhausted uterus." In the flesh-colored kitchen, fried eggs made from sponge were stuck to the walls and ceiling, and some of them were transmuted into human breasts-all demonstrating what their creator called "the imprisonment of the female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bad-Dream House | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...Southerners are the bewildered emancipees, the tight-lipped orphans of an erotic, innocent past. They are nothing but sinners. Where Faulkner's characters are sinners, the eroticism of their South, its very sound and fury, is their redemption. But Flannery O'Conner's characters are arrested in the thicket of their psychological-situational complexity and imprisoned in the future of dusty, democratizing...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: The Complete Stories | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

...Congressmen, in fact, are preparing to introduce legislation. Hubert Humphrey wants to establish a joint congressional committee to review classified material. Edmund Muskie would prefer an independent review board with the power to make documents public after two years. Even if Congress does not want to venture into the thicket of classified documents, the Executive Branch could impose stiff penalties on bureaucrats who classify more than they have to. At a time when Government credibility is in grave doubt, perhaps nothing would restore public confidence so much as release of the information that is now senselessly bottled up in official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The U.S. Mania for Classification | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...Jensen as "a journal of the bio-renaissance dedicated to positive thought and action. " The first issue examined in detail the whys and wherefores of the big January oil spill in San Francisco Bay and publicized a little-known fight to save an obscure Texas wilderness known as Big Thicket. The current number contains a well-documented article on the dangers of lead poisoning. Promised in an upcoming issue: a look at how Soviet socialism relates to its natural environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: That Special Treatment | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

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